technojosh has asked for the
wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I come to the monks for assistance. I have a large bit of Perl code and modules I have written for our company. We are now going to try to get a bit of work somebody has done in a ruby class, integrated into my project. My ideal solution for this is some flavor of inline ruby, or otherwise accessing the ruby interpreter on the system to interact with a ruby class from within our Perl code.

What I am wondering, is if this is really just a code issue in the XS module? Does anyone else ever use this, or any brand of "inline ruby" style code? I have looked at the Inline::Ruby module, but it has even more issues with installation than this one does! (and the docs say it has only been tested on linux)

At the end of the day, I'm really just looking for a simple implementation of inline ruby, so if there is a better/easier/different but equal alternative that I am not considering please suggest it!